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Running Remote 2025

29-30 April 2025
Austin, TX

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Remote work experts from innovative SMEs and enterprise across live, virtual and hybrid stages were presenting in Montreal. 
 
 
 
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Ebbie Wisecarver

Chief Design Officer
WeWork
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Chief Design Officer

WeWork

Ebbie Wisecarver is WeWork’s Chief Design Officer, responsible for leading the physical product’s creative direction, strategy, and development. This includes overseeing revenue-generating add-ons within the physical product and overseeing the company-wide capex budget. Since joining the company in 2015, she has held multiple regional positions, including Japan, China, Australia, and India, along with global roles. Previously, Wisecarver held positions at prestigious design firms Diller, Scofidio + Renfro New York and Steven Holl Architects. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and has participated in numerous traveling exhibitions and fellowships, including a competitive summer internship at Takenaka Corporation in Osaka, Japan. A strong advocate for gender equality, Wisecarver currently serves as the executive sponsor of the company’s employee resource group, Women of WeWork, and is on the board of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, which focuses on gender equity in the design and construction industries through research and education.

Ebbie Wisecarver
Chief Design Officer
WeWork
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JJ Reeder

Director, Remote Organizational Effectiveness
Upwork
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JJ Reeder, former Director of Remote Organizational Effectiveness at Upwork, is leading the charge in revolutionizing knowledge management for remote-first organizations. This April at Running Remote 2025, she’ll share insights in her session, “Handbooks on Steroids: In the Age of AI, Knowledge Management is a Make-or-Break Strategy,” exploring how AI-powered, dynamic knowledge bases are transforming collaboration, efficiency, and innovation in the workplace.

Before joining Upwork in 2022, where she helped transform its global team into a premier remote-first organization, JJ Reeder built extensive expertise in remote work environments. Her career spans roles at fully distributed companies like Toptal and GitLab, where she focused on creating high-performing global teams. With a master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Harvard Extension, JJ combines practical experience with research-backed strategies to enhance meeting effectiveness, promote transparency, and develop flexible benefits tailored for today’s distributed workforce.

Upwork is a remote-first company, embracing a distributed work model that allows employees to work from various locations globally. This approach aligns with Upwork’s mission to create economic opportunities so people have better lives. The company has been proactive in developing strategies to manage remote teams effectively, emphasizing clear communication, robust remote work policies, and a strong organizational culture. 
Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into its operations, Upwork utilizes AI to enhance various aspects of work. This includes automating repetitive tasks, improving project management through AI-powered tools, and leveraging AI for research and analysis to support decision-making processes. The integration of AI aims to streamline workflows, increase efficiency, and foster innovation within the company.

JJ Reeder
Director, Remote Organizational Effectiveness
Upwork
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Nick Bloom

Professor of Economics
Stanford Univesity
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Nick is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has been researching working from home for 20 years, winning a Guggenheim Fellowship for this in 2022. He has been heavily involved with policy, including meeting President Obama, and speaking in the White House 2014 Working Families Summit. Has consulted with 100s of CEOs and managers, and been covered extensively on working from home by international media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, BBC, Financial Times and the Economist. He was called the “Prophet of remote work” by Fortune Magazine, “America’s best work-from-home expert” by Business Insider, and elected to Bloomberg50 for advice on WFH.

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Nick Bloom
Professor of Economics
Stanford Univesity
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Brian Robertson

Co-founder
HolacracyOne, LLC
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Brian Robertson is the world’s foremost expert on Holacracy, a revolutionary framework for self-managing organizations. After years as CEO of an award-winning software company, he co-founded HolacracyOne to share this innovative method with other organizations.

The Holacracy framework integrates the collective wisdom of individuals throughout an organization and offers a toolset for each person to enact meaningful change at any level of work. The result is increased transparency, greater accountability, constant innovation, and agility across the company. Holacracy is used by over 1000 companies today – in healthcare, insurance, banking, retail, technology, nonprofit and government sectors and in places as diverse as Dubai, Shanghai, Amsterdam, London, Berlin, New York, Bangalore, Las Vegas and rural Africa. Brian is thrilled to see this method take root and grow with such force.

Brian is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He speaks at conferences, holds trainings and consults for organizations across the globe.

Introduction to Holacracy (video): http://bit.ly/2uZXkYk

Holacracy Blog Collection: www.holacracy.org/blog

Brian Robertson
Co-founder
HolacracyOne, LLC
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Ian Hubbard

Payoneer
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Ian Hubbard
Payoneer
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Adora Ikwuemesi

Director
Kendor Consulting
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Adora Ikwuemesi
Director
Kendor Consulting
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Lauren DeYoung

Workplace Futurist
Allstate
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Lauren DeYoung
Workplace Futurist
Allstate
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Sharath Abraham

Senior Solutions Consultant
Jabra
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Sharath Abraham
Senior Solutions Consultant
Jabra
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Jonathan Lonsdale

CEO
Ender
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CEO
Ender
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Melinda Stallings

Founder and CEO
Disrupt HR Austin and The Positive Consultant
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Melinda Stallings is a global Organizational Psychologist, international keynote speaker, and Chief Disruptor of DisruptHR Austin. As The Positive Consultant® and creator of The PALM Foundation™, she challenges leaders to rethink culture, capability, and the human side of innovation in AI applications. Melinda brings sharp insight, emotional intelligence, and future-focused clarity to the evolving world of work.

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Founder and CEO
Disrupt HR Austin and The Positive Consultant
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Becca Sherman

Co-Founder & COO
Workweek
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Becca Sherman is the Co-Founder & COO of Workweek, the platform for professional networks that is revolutionizing how business leaders connect, learn, and grow in their careers by integrating distinct personalities, deep professional expertise, and a vibrant community. Becca has spent the better part of the last decade in B2B media. Prior to Workweek, she was General Manager of The Hustle, a daily business newsletter that she helped grow from 300k to over 1M readers, and the Director of New Revenue at MarketerHire, a marketing talent marketplace where she focused developing and monetizing media. Today, she leads her hybrid team at Workweek from her home base in Austin, Texas.

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Co-Founder & COO
Workweek
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Howard Lerman

Founder & CEO
Roam
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Founder & CEO

Roam

Howard Lerman is Founder & CEO of Roam. Roam is the Office Of The Future: AI Coworkers and People collaborating in a Virtual HQ with a full company visualization, presence, spontaneous drop-in conversations, video meetings, AI note taking, & AI Agents. From 2006 until 2022, Howard served as Founder & CEO of Yext (NYSE: YEXT) where he pioneered both the pay-per-call and business listings markets, leading the company from inception to IPO and beyond. From 2014 until 2021 Howard also served as Founder & Chairman of Confide, a confidential messenger used by millions and sold to IAC. In 2002, Howard served as Founder & COO of Intwine until its sale in 2005. While in college, Howard founded and sold JustATip.com. Howard holds a degree in history from Duke University and attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

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Founder & CEO
Roam
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Tiffiney Fort

Director of Employee Experience
Coursera
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With over 30 years of business experience including 10+ years managing M&A Integration, extensive employee and leadership change management, team training, global process standardization, and employee experience analysis, Tiffiney dove into the hybrid space and never looked back. She spent 2 years helping craft Cisco’s hybrid engagement strategy and now manages the employee experience of the distributed teams at Coursera. Tiffiney is especially energized by helping leaders find new ways to engage and inspire their teams by offering practical and easy to follow pathways to excellence. She holds to the motto, “Understanding is the first step” and aids leaders and teams in creating process and engagement models that target their specific needs in simple replicable ways.

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Director of Employee Experience
Coursera
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Crystal O’Neill

President
Seer Interactive
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Crystal O’Neill is the President of Seer Interactive, a 175-person digital marketing agency and certified B Corp. Since joining Seer in 2007—when the team was just a handful of people—Crystal has gained nearly two decades of experience across strategy, operations, and client service, particularly in SEO and paid media, which she led for nearly a decade. Today, she helps guide Seer’s growth as a remote-first organization grounded in purpose. She leads with intention and heart, bringing focus to the chaos of a fast-growing agency, a love of solving complex challenges, and a deep commitment to balancing business with a people-centric culture. Crystal is passionate about scaling companies that prioritize purpose, culture, and impact.

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President
Seer Interactive
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Hebba Youssef

Chief People Officer
Workweek
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Chief People Officer
Workweek
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Mindy Honcoop

Founder, HR Advisor
Agile in HR
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Mindy Honcoop is a HR strategic advisor, and the Founder of Agile in HR, and Co-Founder of AltHR Hive. She has spent more than twenty-five years helping organizations evolve how they work through human-centered design, thoughtful systems, and practical leadership development. Her work focuses on aligning people, processes, and technology through change so companies can grow without losing their soul.Today, Mindy is known for her clear and grounded voice. She advises companies navigating distributed work, digital transformation, builds leadership capability for growing teams, and helps HR and People leaders shift from reactive mode to strategic impact. She also leads customer strategy for MeBeBot, an AI-powered HR platform supporting organizations across the globe. What sets Mindy apart on stage is her presence. She brings curiosity, connection, and an easy, natural energy that helps people feel at home the moment she steps up to the mic. As MC of the Running Remote Radical Stage, she weaves together big ideas, relatable stories, and practical insight to help speakers shine and audiences lean in.Beyond her work, Mindy is an advocate for creating healthy communities. She lives in Austin with her husband, two mischievous Kerry Blue Terriers, and a deep love for good coffee, food, great conversation, and any trail with a bit of elevation.

Mindy Honcoop
Founder, HR Advisor
Agile in HR
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Topics

Recruitment & HR practices

Learn the key strategies and technologies to recruit, manage and scale your remote/hybrid team effectively.

Company culture

Build a cohesive, vibrant and happy team culture, so that both your hybrid & remote team members feel equally valued and nurtured.

Managing Hyper-Growth

During hyper-growth, a remote company faces communication problems, slower decision-making, and a loss of the agility they had at an earlier stage.

Communication strategies

Boost your team’s efficiency and avoid zoom fatigue with a balanced async/sync communication strategy.

Head of Remote

Does your company need to hire a Head of Remote? Understand issues related to remote work to consider what’s best for your business.

Leadership

Optimize your leadership in the “new normal” — what does good look like?

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Sara FellFounder & CEO | Flexjobs
I couldn’t recommend Running Remote more for companies interested in having a remote-friendly company culture and entrepreneurs interested in remote work culture. They’ve put on a fantastic conference!
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Darren MuprhHead of Remote | Gitlab
Running Remote conference is all about meeting smart, kind people across remote and workplace sectors and having real conversations with them. I formed and strengthened a lot of relationships that will edify me (and hopefully them!) for years to come.
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Morgan LeggeOperations | Convert
This event is absolutely critical for any organization's remote/hybrid/asynchronous work toolbox -- for contributors at every level. At RR you're not just learning tips and tricks -- you're probing deeper to understand the why and how behind organizational change. Plus the networking is amazing!
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